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minus-squareancap sharklinkEnglish9•3 days agoThe Brazilian translation I own replaced him with Thomas Jefferson. Kinda random but I found it funny
minus-square@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 days agoWhat’s the translation of the previous “antelope/ant eloping” pun? I can’t imagine that works in other languages.
minus-squareancap sharklinkEnglish7•2 days ago“brutamonte” (rude or big strong person) and “bruta monte” (really big mount) It’s a very bad joke, but I don’t blame the translators. How would they ever translate this bit
minus-square@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish1•3 days agoHuh, I wonder why they did that?
minus-squareancap sharklinkEnglish4•edit-22 days agoBecause almost nobody in Brazil would know Paul Revere
minus-square@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 days agoBut they would know Thomas Jefferson? If I were tasked to choose the most famous U.S. political figures, I might have chosen Washington or Lincoln…
minus-square@EarMaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 days agoI’m not from Brazil but from Germany and out of all the U.S. founding fathers Washington, Franklin and Jefferson were the ones I had heard of. Lincoln also, but he is not one of them, is he?
minus-square@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 days agoNo, Lincoln wasn’t a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.
The Brazilian translation I own replaced him with Thomas Jefferson. Kinda random but I found it funny
What’s the translation of the previous “antelope/ant eloping” pun? I can’t imagine that works in other languages.
“brutamonte” (rude or big strong person) and “bruta monte” (really big mount)
It’s a very bad joke, but I don’t blame the translators. How would they ever translate this bit
Huh, I wonder why they did that?
Because almost nobody in Brazil would know Paul Revere
But they would know Thomas Jefferson? If I were tasked to choose the most famous U.S. political figures, I might have chosen Washington or Lincoln…
I’m not from Brazil but from Germany and out of all the U.S. founding fathers Washington, Franklin and Jefferson were the ones I had heard of. Lincoln also, but he is not one of them, is he?
No, Lincoln wasn’t a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.